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Agenda Overview of AST, Captioning Processes and Terms Examples of Captions and Transcripts in use in government Research on Usage and Effectiveness Captioning Options Captioning Policies and Best Practices

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Captioning Overview Captioning refers to the process of taking an audio track, transcribing the words to text, and synchronizing them with audio and video The term subtitling is frequently interchanged with captioning though frequently subtitling is used in conjunction with conveying information in a different language that the audio track For TV, the caption file is delivered as line 21 and is rendered through an encoder in the TV Legislation for captioning started in the 198os, and evolved with mandates for captioning most daytime and prime time TV in 2006 Captioning is not yet mandated for Web-delivered video, though the 21 st century communications act bill would mandate captioning

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Universal Design =Accessibility + Universal Access: accommodate viewers with hearing and learning disabilities. Make your content as usable as possible by as many people as possible. Remove Language Barriers: in cases where the student or the lecturer is not a native English speaker (ESL), captioning can improve communication. Improving Comprehension: studies have shown that captioning improves comprehension and retention for all viewers. Content Access in Mobile/Noisy Environments: Students will be accessing your content in all sorts of unexpected places.

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Additional Benefits of UD Searchability: How can viewers locate specific information within linear media? Particularly important in information-rich long-form media; eg: lectures. Caption data enables this. Navigability: Video is inherently linear. Can you enable viewers to move around quickly in the material to locate information… like flipping through a text book? Of course, the answer is: caption data! Discoverability : How does your content get discovered by search engines? Title? Meta data files? Caption data is the best.

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Our Research Efforts Originated from a project funded by Dept of Education to examine how to make captioning more efficient. Looked at existing techniques, cost structures, and emerging technologies. Concluded that significant improvements were possible using automation, but we still needed to use human stenographers for transcription task.

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Web-based interface: No software to buy or install Pay just for what you use No need to exchange physical media Just log on and submit your media files Directly accept most media types Integrated transcription if required Many result types available! Get back multiple result types from a single submission – no extra costs. Automatic Sync Design

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Video Search: With captioning data, it is a fairly simple matter to create a video search system for all of your captioned electronic media. Browsable Transcripts: These are html-formatted transcripts of a audio/video file that allow you to click on any word in the transcript and launch the media file at that point. http://www.automaticsync.com/caption/1432.htm Word-Level captioning: karaoke-style captioning is very helpful for ESL students as well as some folks with certain learning disabilities.

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Customers Department of Defense U.S. Census Bureau Internal Revenue Service U.S. Departments of Labor, Justice, and Transportation President Obama's Inagural Address University of Central Oklahoma University of California at Berkeley Stanford University Apple Computer Cisco Networks CNET-TV Lockheed Martin Company NASA Langley Research Center National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Federal Communications Commission (FCC) National Institute of Health (NIH) Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC)

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AST Website: http://www.automaticsync.com http://www.automaticsync.com How-to videos (all captioned!) at: http://www.automaticsync.com/help http://www.automaticsync.com/help Result types and what they are used for: http://www.automaticsync.com/caption/results_faq.htm http://www.automaticsync.com/caption/results_faq.htm In-depth presentation on different ways to caption: http://easi.cc/archive/caption/caption-webinar.htm http://easi.cc/archive/caption/caption-webinar.htm To apply for a login ID on the CaptionSync system: http://www.automaticsync.com/caption/sign_up.php http://www.automaticsync.com/caption/sign_up.php